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A VERY RARE PALE CELADON-GLAZED Vases of this ‘chrysanthemum’ shape are exceptionally rare. The only two
'CHRYSANTHEMUM' VASE other monochrome-glazed examples that appear to be recorded are the
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN turquoise-glazed vase of approximately the same size (27 cm. high) in the
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai
Yuyao Ciqi (Qing-Dynasty Imperial Porcelain from the Palace Museum),
The globular body with a trumpet-form neck and a spreading pedestal
base, which is raised on a circular foot rim, is molded with thirty-two lobes Beijing, pp. 270-71, no. 121 (Fig. 1), which is dated to the Yongzheng
divided into eight vertical sections by narrow ribs, and is covered overall period, and another turquoise-glazed example (25.3 cm. high) in the
with a glaze of even pale celadon tone. National Palace Museum, Taipei, which has been dated to the Kangxi
period. Two other vases of this shape and dating to the Yongzheng
10¡ in. (26.4 cm.) high period, but decorated in doucai with flowering leafy vines, include the
vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of
$200,000-300,000 the Flourishing Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 1994, p. 173, no. 17, and again in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – 38 – Porcelains
PROVENANCE: in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 249, no. 228,
Acquired in New York in the 1980s. and the virtually identical doucai example sold at Christie’s New York, 19
March 2009, lot 560 (Fig. 2). Both of these doucai-decorated examples
are of slightly smaller size (25.9 cm.) and bear apocryphal Chenghua
清雍正 天青釉菊瓣式撇口尊 六字篆書款
marks. The construction of such vases must have presented a number
來源: of challenges to the potter, and given their relatively large size, combined
於1980年代購自紐約。 with the complexity of the form, it is perhaps not surprising that so few
examples have survived to the present day.
This type of narrow lobing is more typically associated with smaller
vessels, particularly the richly colored monochrome 'chrysanthemum'
dishes made during the Yongzheng period, such as the twelve in the
collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng
Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 316, pl. 145. In addition, a small flambé-
glazed teapot of ‘chrysanthemum’ design, with an incised four-character
Yongzheng seal mark, is also in the Palace Museum, illustrated in Gugong
Bowuyuan cang Qingdai Yuyao Ciqi (Qing-Dynasty Imperial Porcelain from
the Palace Museum), pp.312-313, no. 121.
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Fig. 1. Turquoise-glazed ‘chrysanthemum’ vase, Yongzheng Fig. 2. Doucai petal-lobed vase, zun, Yongzheng period
period (1723-1735), 27 cm. high. The Palace Museum/ (1723-1735), 10 ⅛ in. high. Sold Christie’s New York,
Image copyright © The Palace Museum. After Gugong 19 March 2009, lot 560.
Bowuyuan cang Qingdai Yuyao Ciqi (Qing-Dynasty Imperial 圖二 清雍正鬥彩菊瓣式撇口尊, 高 10 ⅛ 英寸。
Porcelain from the Palace Museum), Beijing, pp. 270-71,
no. 121. 紐約佳士得, 2009年3月19日, 拍品560號。
圖一 清雍正孔雀綠菊瓣式撇口尊, 高27公分。
故宮博物院/圖片版權所有©故宮博物院。載於《故宮
博物院藏清代御窯瓷器》, 北京, 頁 270-71, 121號。